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Bobbie Rayburn is a baseball player extraordinaire. Gil Renard is a fan who will do anything to support his team. Anything. This is the book on which the movie starring Robert de Niro and Wesley Snipes was based. 338 pages. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". In addition to his well-known thrillers, Peter Abrahams has also written a series of young adult mysteries. He won the 2005 Agatha Award for Best Young Adult Mystery for Down the Rabbit Hole. The follow-up to that novel, Behind the Curtain, was nominated for an Agatha. Jacket design by Jackie Meyer Merri.
The Fan
Abrahams, Peter
New York: Warner Books, 1995.
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In Thief of Souls, acclaimed author Ann Benson brings us another novel of parallel tales--one in 15th century France, the other in 21st century Los Angeles. In each tale, a serial killer is targeting children. In the 15th century, Guillemette le Drappiere, companion to the Bishop of Nantes investigates; in 2002, L. A. detective Lany Dunbar is being sought by the very suspect she is pursuing. 482 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Royce M. Becker.
Thief of Souls
Benson, Ann
New York: Delacorte Press, 2002.
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When Detective Francis X. Loughlin was new on the police force, a young doctor was murdered and Julian Vega, her apartment manager, was convicted and sent to prison. Twenty years later, Vega is released from prison on a technicality. Another doctor is murdered, and fingers point to Vega again. The DNA test is a shocker--the blood under the new victim's fingernails isn't that of Vega, but of the woman murdered twenty years before. Peter Blauner won the 1992 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Slow Motion Riot. 391 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design and photograph by Frances Yasmeen Motiwalla.
Slipping into Darkness
Blauner, Peter
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006.
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Maris Matherly-Reed, VP at Matherly Press, discovers the manuscript of a book she suspects is not entirely fiction. She travels to a remote island to meet the author. Her fascination with the book distracts her from events happening at home--her philandering husband is about to sell off Press. Even worse, she doesn't know that there's a connection between the reclusive author and her husband. Sandra Brown has been honored as a Thrillermaster by the International Thriller Writers. 490 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by George Cornell.
Envy
Brown, Sandra
New York: Warner Books, 2001.
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Princeton students Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris are delving into the secrets of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an enigmatic text published in 1499. Then another researcher is murdered. While their motives for decoding the text are different, Tom and Paul are joined in a race for time, hoping to prevent more deaths while holding onto their friendship. 372 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 5/8". Jacket design by Belina Huey and Aenee Kim.
The Rule of Four
Caldwell, Ian and Dustin Thomason
New York: Dial Press, 2004.
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Author's first novel, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction in 2003. Stephen L. Carter is a Law Professor at Yale, and has written extensively in the fields of politics and religion. In The Emperor of Ocean Park, Talcott Garland, a wealthy African-American law professor and family man, is grieving for his recently-deceased father Oliver Garland, a former Supreme Court nominee. Oliver Garland had left behind a set of "arrangements." What those arrangements are, and where they are, is a mystery to Talcott. But he isn't the only one looking for them. As Talcott tries to locate them, he begins to fear that his father was murdered. 657 pp. 8" X 5 1/4".
The Emperor of Ocean Park
Carter, Stephen L.
New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 2002.
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The novels in this omnibus edition were previously published. Titles include: The Man Who Was Clever; the Lawless Lady; The Saint Closes the Case; The Avenging Saint; and The Saint vs. Scotland Yard. 663 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket illustration by George Wilson.
The Saint: Five Complete Novels
Charteris, Leslie
New York: Avenel Books, 1983.
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Jenny McPartland, a divorced mother of two girls, marries the man of her dreams. Or so she thinks. After their marriage, her new husband, artist Erich Krueger, takes Jenny and her girls to his home in Minnesota. Living in the elegant mansion is exciting at first, but it soon turns into a terrifying prison. Jenny must unravel the house's history to save her life and that of her children. This is the book on which the movie of the same name was based. 317 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket painting and design by Wendell Minor.
A Cry in the Night
Clark, Mary Higgins
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.
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A novellette that combines Christmas, family problems, a criminal family and New York City. 154 pp; 7 3/4" X 6". Jacket design and illustration by Paul Bacon.
Silent Night
Clark, Mary Higgins
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
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Winner of the 1997 Edgar Award for Best Novel. In 1926, art teacher Elizabeth Channing joins the staff of Chatham School, a boy's prep school on Cape Cod. She begins an affair with a teacher at the school, which sets in play a series of events that leads to murder.292 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2". Jacket designed by Jamie S. Warren Youll.
The Chatham School Affair
Cook, Thomas H.
New York: Bantam Books,
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Quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his assistant Amelia Sachs are looking for Thompson Boyd, a killer who is tracking Geneva Settle, a Harlem high school student. What interest would a murderer have in a school girl? It seems to have something to do with a paper Geneva is writing on an ancestor, a former slave who became a farmer in upstate New York. Why would events from more than a hundred and twenty-five years ago trigger a series of murders now? 397 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Jackie Seow.
The Twelfth Card
Deaver, Jeffery
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
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Quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his assistant Amelia Sachs are looking for Thompson Boyd, a killer who is tracking Geneva Settle, a Harlem high school student. What interest would a murderer have in a school girl? It seems to have something to do with a paper Geneva is writing on an ancestor, a former slave who became a farmer in upstate New York. Why would events from more than a hundred and twenty-five years ago trigger a series of murders now? 397 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Jackie Seow.
Twelfth Card
Deaver, Jeffery
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
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Translated from the French by Mark Pollizotti. A tale of two generations of loves lost and found, gun-running, and labor disputes, ranging from Paris to Malaysia. Susan Ireland, in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, described Double Jeopardy as "a zany adventure story." 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Lorraine Louie.
Double Jeopardy: A Novel
Echenoz, Jean
Boston: David R. Godine, 1993.
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Taking a short cut home one night, Harald Olufsen finds his way blocked by an extensive fenced enclosure he hadn't known was there. The buldings and equipment inside the fence are also unusual. Being a student of physics, he realizes he's found a German radar installation. He also knows he has to report it to someone, but doesn't know who. And how. Living on a Nazi-occupied island doesn't offer many options. Harald's only hope is a broken-down Hornet Moth airplane. Harald and his friend Karen secretly try to make the airplane air-worthy again. Will they succeed? Based on real events. 420 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Richard Hasselberger.
Hornet Flight
Follett, Ken
New York: Dutton, 2002.
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Maps on endpapers. Pan American Airlines' Flying Clipper is the most luxurious airplane ever built. A few days after Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, the Clipper left England for its last trans-Atlantic flight. The passengers were all wealthy, some were eccentric, but all had their own agendas. In a flight that lasted over 24 hours, tensions were sure to rise. 400 pp. 9 13/8" X 6 1/4". Jacket illustration by George Sharpe.
Night Over Water
Follett, Ken
New York: William Morrow, 1991.
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Winner of the 2007 Barry Award for Best Mystery Novel. First Harper paperback edition. Berlin nightclub owner, "Prince Nick," exploits Anna Anderson's claim to be Anastasia, youngest daughter of the Russian Czar Nicholas. A mysterious stranger, however, is determined to eliminate Anna and everyone around her. In a second plot line, Berlin's Inspector Schmidt is pursuing a mass murderer. His efforts are thwarted, however, because the killer is apparently part of Hitler's brownshirts. 422 p. 8" X 5/14". Cover Photograph by Ken Regan.
City of Shadows
Franklin, Ariana
New York: Harper Collins, 2006.
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Fritz Tully has left the publish-or-perish world of academia after an affair with another professor's wife. He retreats to his family's Maryland farm, and spends his time bird-watching. One day, he sees more than birds through his camera--he witnesses a murder on his neighbor's property. The neighbor has ties to the CIA, and takes a special interest in finding out what Tully knows. 354 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Flag.
Bird's-Eye View
Freedman, J. F.
New York: Warner Books, 2001.
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Author's second novel. The fault tree is a diagram that analyzes possible causes of calamity. It is Marina Robinson's job to construct the tree. Her latest assignment is interrupted, however, by a message apparently from her sister Catherine--but Catherine had died a decade ago in India. Marina journeys to India to investigate the circumstances of Catherine's disappearance and death. 211 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 5/8". Cover design by Janet Halverson.
The Fault Tree
Friedman, Mickey
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1984.
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Someone is knocking off the Honeywells. The pressure builds as 20-year-old Lisa sees her grandfather, father, and her father's mistress murdered. She's next in line, and must identify the killer, with the help of her mentor, Ralph Simmons. 234 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 5 3/4". Jacket design by Irving Freeman.
The Last of the Honeywells: A Novel of Suspense
Gillespie, Robert B.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1988.
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A collection of forty stories, gathered under such headings as: Legendary Sleuths; Masters of the Mystery; Masters of Suspense; and Masterworks of Crime and Detection. 651 pp. 8 1/2" 5 3/4". Jacket by Edward Gorey.
Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspense
Greenberg, Martin H.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
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